Cast of Characters:
Cgmaness – @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – acoustic guitar, drums, lyrics, vocals, and composition
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ and piano
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – four string fretless bass
This song started all the way back in October, when Chris came up with lyrics and a vocal melody to go over his acoustic guitar composition. He also added the drum beat that carries it along, and contrasts Josh's bass part, which he added next. JJ came along shortly after and added his twinkling piano and ambiance thickening organ. 
  We had all these parts down, but for some reason this sat on the shelf for a few months. Finally we decided to dust it off. Chris mixed it for us expertly, as always, and we decided to put a ribbon on it. 
 This is an example of Chris's brilliant songwriting, shared with a couple of other musicians who are mutual admirers of his work. This is also a trio within the Eclectic Collective family, as we sometimes do side projects with different iterations of the group. We all hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.  
  
Original lyrics by cgmaness:

Let the night tuck you under,
When you feel you can't go on.
When you want to be happy,
I will be what you want...
And, it's you that makes me happy.
When I'm down on my bad sign.
Washing out all the tie-dye from the blue sky.

Let The Night (Eclectic Collective)

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

Taken/PenAce/Bi/TransWoman/jacket person/VRchat:inkEcho/Tiktok:EchoDust/youtube:EchoDust/born:2007/birthday:1,18/18 years old

Composer and Media Producer from Kent, Ohio, USA.  Has released works as Xyst, Sonoxia, and JeffRay for Hypaethral Productions, Pearls Before Swine, and Mesa Publishing. Now focused on creating mostly instrumental music for video, tv, games and motion picture scores. 

Although the thumbnails are created using Dall-E or Stable Diffusion, NO AI WAS USED TO CREATE ANY MUSICAL COMPONENTS. 
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There are far too many people to thank, but I'm going to try: 

FIRST AND FOREMOST: 
Image-Line's FL Studio DAW
https://www.image-line.com/
https://soundcloud.com/fl-studio

I cannot begin to express how much this software helped me find my musical voice. (Image-line has not paid me anything for my endorsement.) Buy it once and get lifetime unlimited upgrades. I've used it since 1999 and since then, they've introduced dozens of new synths and effects I received for free. It just keeps on giving. I absolutely love FL Studio because of it's step sequencer core, beautiful interfaces, ease of use, robust help, versatility and incredible sound quality. 

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I'll be cycling through a list of FAVORITE SOUNDCLOUD ARTISTS here. So many incredible musicians worth mentioning...

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary) 
https://soundcloud.com/josh-clary-1

Thrillmonkey
https://soundcloud.com/thrillmonkey

FlexHead
https://soundcloud.com/flexheadfunk

Seiso Sanshu
https://soundcloud.com/sanshu-seiso

AnandaTuk
https://soundcloud.com/user-11396379

Ni!
https://soundcloud.com/ni-ni-shrubbery

Earnest Woodall
https://soundcloud.com/user-235089528

Werner
https://soundcloud.com/wejfi

Frans Beelaard
https://soundcloud.com/user-936947521

Fabiano Matiolla
https://soundcloud.com/fabianomatiolla

Shaddenhook
https://soundcloud.com/schaddenhook
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If you follow me and haven't heard from me recently, send a message. There is so much great music out here, it sometimes take a while to get back and listen to the wonderful stuff you are all making.

Only very slightly evil hippy of the old tradition.
1 guy, strat, Yamaha acoustic. iPad. substances.
I’m no Conway Twitty. 😕
Listening pleasure proportionate to cannabis intake.

Sugaray is a South African musician, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer.

J’aborde l’amour sous toutes ses facettes : sa beauté, ses épreuves et ses paradoxes. Pour moi, l’amour est une énergie universelle, mais la quête de l’amour romantique tel qu’on l’idéalise détruit son essence même, fragilise le couple et déstabilise la famille. À travers des sonorités variées (latines, pop, rap, R&B) et une touche de nostalgie, j’aborde des thèmes comme la dépression, l’amour de soi, la tromperie ou la perte des sentiments, sans détour ni tabou. Avec ma voix douce, je porte un message sincère : accompagner ceux qui se reconnaissent dans ces douleurs et rappeler que l’amour, dans sa vérité, est un chemin vers soi et les autres.

I’ve got cats.
When I’m not here, I’m there → https://soundcloud.com/cubik-lab/tracks

sky_sensei_mccloud

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kixZuKKtfSUifaBgPNFtH4GOnXJh1-LQg&si=tA3Q8taESqbQRxjE&fbclid=PAAab1lVp1y0S7LuQG-3I9k_QDWYRHEIoajcV4fyNO6BWRpkqCBvBplvn0L_g

Street pirates 

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l5wzZL-m4IO6NXStLfYYjRRJNR7Geqy5I&si=00m13nEnWy_EJpDv&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabgN1AkA8GkLGb7NMeUsYDPLrHMWkjLyusA0KxEHZJRD2mqx-cWo7TwtvE_aem_xKaovBM-9pHgzFHwwGSvGQ

hold up wait there's more 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kP2ucGQi-Om0Pf1vSY3myP1B3Yzewd3Ok&si=87VEh4JSOHQCLbsg

Thank you for listening my tracks😊
Released in the past👇
https://www.beatport.com/release/nulupo/2633029